That Kerry Photo

[yendi]

http://www.newsday.com/ny-kerry0215,0,4733861.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

Gee. What a surprise. I'm just shocked that the Republican Party (oh, excuse me, surely this was done by a well-meaning sympathizer who's not speaking or acting on the Party's behalf) would possible stoop to faking evidence. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

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[dwivian]

I call bullshit on that.

Retraction was on air, directly under the offending picture, and he had it in two days running of notes showing how he was fooled by the photoshopped picture, too. Not many would take the time to admit being tricked.

Nice try to paint with a wide brush, though. Did you even look at the link?

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[yendi]

Yes, I read the link. It's not that Boortz was the propagandist (I don't like or respect the man, but he tends to be like the old D&D Lawful Evil folks, with a set of "rules" that he sticks to). It's the zillions of folks who take his initial rant (and as I said, this is something that applies to everyone, from Boortz to Alterman), forward it to everyone, talk about it at the water cooler, post it on LJ, etc, but then don't do the same for the follow-ups. And everyone from Boortz to Alterman knows that this happens.

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[dwivian]

Okay.... that I'll grant. :)